BIRD NOTES

On May 21 Joe Holmes and I made a trip to the Annapolis Valley to look for birds and we found 45 species.

Alice Arnold of Chelsea had a ruby-throated hummingbird arrive at the end of April. Johnny Myra spotted a ruby-throated hummingbird in Western Shore on May 7. Pat and David Watson of East LaHave had them back on May 10. Ethan Sarty had a northern waterthrush, a black and white warbler and a Nashville warbler in Mahone Bay.

On May 9, Steven Morris and I did a big day of birding and saw 60 species. 

It has been a slow week for migrants coming back, but that will change by May 9.

My best day out birding, since I wrote the last column, was on April 23 when I saw 41 species.

On April 16 a king eider was found by Kathleen MacAulay at the Town Point Wharf in Yarmouth County.

April 9 was like any other day out birding.

Joe Holmes and I made a birding venture on April 2 where we saw 28 species.

I led a field trip on March 28, which started in Port Clyde at 08:30 and then went to the Blanche Peninsula and ended at Bacarro.

On March 19 Barbara McLean and I took a trip out birding where we covered the Kissing Bridge Road, First Peninsula, The Sawpit Park and Second Peninsula.

It is that time of year again where bird watching can be very slow with winter migrants moving out and the return of regular birds that nest here. Birds that we should expect to be arriving now are American woodcocks, killdeer, American robins, common grackles and red-winged blackbirds. Of course, some other species will also start to show like double-crested cormorants and great blue herons.

This was the 126th year for Christmas Bird Counts in Canada.